Fri, May 13, 2022 Read in 4 minutes Neasa speaking during Dáil statements on the National Maternity Hospital on Thursday, 12th May. Transcript: Those of us who have been on the Health Committee and who have looked at these documents at length and considered the matter yesterday and again today have had the time this […]
Thu, Nov 23, 2023 Read in 2 minutes A planning application was made to Dublin City Council on the 16th of November for the development of a 93 unit apartment development in three blocks including a café/retail unit. Updates On 22nd January 2024 the council made a decision on the application requesting clarifications and changes. […]
Thu, Nov 4, 2021 Read in 2 minutes Neasa gives a quick 60 second run-down on the Climate Action Plan 2021. This is the detailed plan for taking decisive action to achieve a 51% reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and setting us on a path to reaching net-zero emissions by no later […]
Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Read in 2 minutes Neasa Hourigan TD has today published the Citizens’ Assembly on Evidence Informed Drugs Policy from a Harm Reduction Perspective, which proposes a framework for how the upcoming assembly might approach its work. The paper calls for people’s lived experience to be made central to the Citizens’ Assembly. […]
Sun, Jul 1, 2018 Read in 3 minutes The Dublin Blockers activists believe that streets must be for the use of people first and that the current management and policy of both local authorities and national government do not achieve this. Footpaths are for feet: big and small, using walking aids or wheelchairs, white canes […]
Have your say on how parking in the Phoenix Park is managed The Office of Public Works is running a non-statutory public consultation seeking the views of the public on its Draft Parking Strategy. I am running a public meeting to discuss this Parking Strategy and to encourage people to make their view known to […]
Wed, Oct 26, 2022 Read in 1 minutes Neasa’s Topical Issue on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. I encourage people to be careful w.r.t. comments. Dail TDs enjoy privilege in the chamber where there is public interest demonstrated.
Tue, Oct 4, 2022 Read in 1 minutes Concerns have been raised with my office in relation to the trees that lined the central reservation along Dorset Street. Unfortunately these trees have failed, due in part to their confined in situ planting bays and the harsh environmental conditions that these trees are constantly subjected to […]
On Tuesday 26th April at 10:30 Neasa will host an online Zoom meeting to launch her paper on a Citizens’ Assembly on an Evidence Informed Drugs Policy from a Harm Reduction Perspective. Neasa will be joined by speakers with a lived experience of drugs to hear their first hand experience. All are welcome to attend […]
The Minister for the Office of Public Works has published a Steering Group report with a range of options to address transport and mobility challenges in the Phoenix Park. These options will be taken forward for public consultation on 29th January for six weeks early in 2021. More details here. Subscribe to this list for […]
Thu, May 23, 2019 Read in 2 minutes Did you know that the OPW and Failte Ireland plan to redevelop the Phoenix Park? It’s quite the plan: make the Bloom carpark permanent, new buildings and retail (not a whole lot about trees…..) What is happening? Our government has just declared a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. […]
